http://www.scribd.com/doc/109920743/RMP-2012-III-01

And if you don’t like Latino Decision, take a look at the Rocky Mountain Poll posted above.

Second, Latino Decisions is a fairly new polling organization without a track record in predicting elections. Most of their sponsors are left wing or left-leaning, which will lead many to question their credibility, as we know there are polling organizations that seek to influence voter behavior with biased polling, for example oversampling Democrats. IMHO the jury is still out on the credibility of Latino Decisions.

I agree with the narrative that the some Arizona Republican politicians have been driving away Latino voters with harsh rhetoric, and as pro-immigrant Republicans we don’t hesitate to call out politicians of either party who use harsh rhetoric.

However, I feel compelled to point out that the Republican Party is not monolithic on the immigration issue. A Pew Research poll in May 2011 and other polls show consistently that a majority of Republicans support immigration reform, including a 49/49% split of staunch conservatives. A large majority of Republicans also support more immigration enforcement. http://www.people-press.org/2011/05/04/section-8-domestic-issues-and-social-policy/

Overall, as Pew Research found, Republican attitudes on immigration reform and immigration enforcement are not all that different than Americans in general. However, it’s the most shrill Republicans who are most often quoted in the media, while moderates tend to remain quiet because of the divisiveness of the issue, and this fosters the perception that immigration extremists are the face of the GOP, when they are not. There’s a reason Russell Pearce lost both his recall election and the recent GOP primary, both times in Republican districts, and defeated by conservative Republicans with moderate views on immigration… many Republicans have had enough of extremists like Pearce.